Quotes About Enlightenment

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha

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Stare deep into the world before you as if it were the void: innumerable holy ghosts, buddhies, and savior gods there hide, smiling. All the atoms emitting light inside wavehood, there is no personal separation of any of it. A hummingbird can come into a house and a hawk will not: so rest and be assured. While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.

Buddham Saranam Gocchami, I take refuge in the Buddha, Sangham, I take refuge in the church, Dhammam, I take refuge in the Dharma, the truth.

finally I went over to an old cook in the doorway of the kitchen and asked him "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?" (Bodhidharma was the Indian who brought Buddhism eastward to China.) "I don't care," said the old cook, with lidded eyes, and I told Japhy and he said, "Perfect answer, absolutely perfect. Now you know what I mean by Zen.

Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!

Dharmos negalima pamesti, nieko negalima pamesti gerai išmintame take.

Findes der en bestemt og tydelig lære der kan gives alle levende væsener?" var det spørgsmål man sikkert stillede den snehvide Dipankara med de buskede øjenbryn, og hans svar var diamantens brølende stilhed.

One night in a meditation vision Avalokitesvara the Hearer and Answerer of Prayer said to me 'You are empowered to remind people that they are utterly free' so I laid my hand on myself to remind myself first and then felt gay, yelled 'Ta,' opened my eyes, and a shooting star shot.

and as the river poured down from mid-America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ? Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.

From defilement can come much wisdom

You must be a light unto yourself.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.